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The Cardiff cake-loving community hosted its sixth Roath Bake at St Andrew’s Church, Wellfield Road this April. The event hosted by Wayne Courtney and Nathan Wyburn and with 12 judges the competition saw over 100 cakes from 6 categories of amateurs to professionals. The Cardiff Times Magazine columnists, Wyburn and Wayne, are a duo at the heart of the community who fundraise and host events for charity in Cardiff. This year their competition was set to raise money for the…
Children around Wales are being offered free coaching as part of the legacy of Great Britain’s victory in the Davis Cup. A total of 38 courses under the Tennis for Kids programme are taking place in North, South, and Mid Wales during the summer. Details vary from club to club, but generally involve six free, fun sessions with an expert coach; a free racket to keep, if you attend regularly; the chance for parents or guardians to get involved; and…
Thousands of thrill-seekers from across Wales slipped, slid and stumbled across ten tricky obstacles as the world’s biggest inflatable obstacle course came to Cardiff for the first time. A total of 5,000 people took on obstacles including Europe’s tallest inflatable slide and the world’s biggest bouncy inflatable at Gung-Ho! 5k, held at Bute Park on Saturday (21st May). Despite the rain, there were smiles all round from runners young and old who conquered the course, brainchild of Cbeebies presenter Alex…
BIC launches national creative writing competition Imagine waking up one day to find that everything is a little bit different. You get dressed, clean your teeth, eat a banana and leave the house, but as you do you realise that Mum’s usual morning note isn’t there. There’s a familiar white scrap of paper, but it’s blank. Then the phone vibrates. It’s a message from your friend saying they’ve received a load of birthday cards but none have been written in….
Campaigners in Wales are celebrating as legislation to phase out brightly coloured and slickly designed tobacco packaging in the UK takes effect tomorrow (Friday). All tobacco products must now be produced in plain, standardised packs with large picture health warnings. Shops and retailers have 12 months to sell existing packets. Cancer Research UK began campaigning for plain, standardised packaging in April 2012 and more than 90,000 people from across the UK took action to support the campaign. The Welsh Assembly…
On Tuesday 24 May, Alzheimer’s Society are holding a Dementia Friendly Communities event in Cardiff, supported by former Wales international footballer, Robbie Savage. The event organised by the charity and sponsored by Western Power Distribution will bring together people living with dementia, returning and newly elected AMs, businesses and organisations from across Wales. The meeting aims to build on and showcase some of the work already underway in Wales to build Dementia Friendly Communities. It will feature best practice case studies and presentations by local communities working…
Lyme Awareness Month Ellie Britton (21) student, Backwell, North Somerset: I remember having several tick bites as a child, but never noticed a bullseye rash. When I was 10 I became too ill to go to school, and was misdiagnosed with ME/CFS. We never linked the illness and the tick bites. I’ve missed out on most of my teenage life. My worst symptoms are severe fatigue (I often need a wheelchair when leaving the house), constant nausea, stomach ache, headache,…
Four community projects from across Wales have been announced as finalists in the 2016 Jewson Building Better Communities competition. After beating 1,800 nominated projects they’ve made it to this stage, and now need your help to secure a share of the £250,000 prize fund. Trigollion Community Building, Iorwerth Arms Community Pub, Canton RFC Junior Section and Gwerin y Coed – ‘Sied Setlo’ Community Education Centre are calling on members of the local community to get behind the projects and cast…
A budding opera star from Cardiff will join singers from across the UK as a warm-up act for superstar soprano Katherine Jenkins at this summer’s Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod William Rennie, from Roath, will be among opera singing students who are in for the experience of a lifetime after being invited to appear on the outdoor stage at July’s 70th Eisteddfod opening day ahead of Katherine Jenkins’s Carmen concert. They have been raising the roof at a Llangollen church while…
